Illustration Credits

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Detail from The Corsair, no. 285, 6 March 1846. (The Royal Danish Library)

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Potsdamer Bahnhof in Berlin, 1843. Steel engraving by C. Schulin.

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Frederiksberg Gardens. Colored watercolor by Peter Christian Klæstrup (1820–82). (Copyright © Her Majesty the Queen’s Hand Library, Denmark)

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Plato’s Allegory of the Cave by Jan Saenredam, 1604. (Copyright © The Trustees of the British Museum, London)

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Copenhagen Harbour by Moonlight by Johan Christian Clausen Dahl, 1846. (Private collection. AKG Images)

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Søren Kierkegaard’s engagement ring for Regine Olsen. (Hans Nissen/Museum of Copenhagen)

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Portrait of Regine Olsen by Emil Bærentzen, 1840. (The Royal Danish Library)

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Fragment of a letter from Søren Kierkegaard to Regine Olsen. (The Royal Danish Library)

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Johan Ludvig Heiberg by David Monies. (The Royal Danish Library)

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Hans Lassen Martensen. (The Royal Danish Library)

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Østergade, Copenhagen: the omnibus to Frederiksberg (from Illustreret Tidende, 1860). (The Royal Danish Library)

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Page fragment from the manuscript of Fear and Trembling, 1843. (The Royal Danish Library)

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King Christian VIII of Denmark, 1845. (The Gisselfeld Kloster)

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Portrait of Michael Pedersen Kierkegaard. (AKG Images)

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Portrait of Anne Kierkegaard. (The Royal Danish Library)

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Trinity Church and the Rundetaarn (Round Tower) in 1749. (The Royal Danish Library)

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Jakob Peter Mynster by Constantin Hansen. (The Royal Danish Library)

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Vor Frue Kirke (Church of Our Lady), Copenhagen. (The Royal Danish Library)

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C. F. Hansen’s Courthouse and City Hall by Carl Balsgaard, 1850. (Museum of Copenhagen)

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Interior of Vor Frue Kirke (Church of Our Lady), Copenhagen. (The Royal Danish Library)

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Christus by Bertel Thorvaldsen, 1838. (The Royal Danish Library)

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Johanne Luise Heiberg. (The Royal Danish Library)

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Woodcut for a plaster mask of Poul Martin Møller by H. P. Hansen. (The Royal Danish Library)

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Hans Christian Andersen, watercolour by Carl Hartmann, 1845. (The Picture Art Collection/Alamy Stock Photo)

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Buildings at the Gendarmenmarkt square in Berlin, steel engraving; drawing by H. Hintze, 1833. (Central Library, Zurich)

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View of the Spree and the Lustgarten from the Hotel de Saxe. (Alamy Stock Photo)

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Søren Kierkegaard reading in a café, sketch by Christian Olavius Zeuthen, 1843. (The Royal Danish Library)

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First page from the manuscript of Repetition, 1843. (The Royal Danish Library)

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A page from the manuscript of Repetition, showing where Kierkegaard cut out the young man’s suicide, 1843.

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Portrait of Johann Arndt, 1621.

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Illustration from an eighteenth-century edition of Arndt’s True Christianity.

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Summer Day at Geel’s Hill near Holte by Andreas Juuel, 1856. (From the collection of Rudersdal Museums; photograph Ole Tage Hartmann)

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The editors of The Corsair, P. L. Møller and M. A. Goldschmidt. (The Royal Danish Library)

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Page from The Corsair, no. 278, 16 January 1846. (The Royal Danish Library)

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Detail from The Corsair, no. 278, 16 January 1846. (The Royal Danish Library)

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Page from The Corsair, no. 285, 6 March 1846. (The Royal Danish Library)

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Jacob Peter Mynster, Bishop of Copenhagen, painting by J. V. Gertner, 1853. (The Royal Danish Library)

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Emil Boesen by Friedrich Wilhelm Schmidt, 1863. (The Royal Danish Library)

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Frederiks Hospital, Bredgade, Copenhagen. (The Royal Danish Library)

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Bust of Kierkegaard outside the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, University of Copenhagen.

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Seated statue of Kierkegaard by Louis Hasselriis, in the garden of the Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen. (Alamy Stock Photo)

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Kierkegaard’s grave, Assistens Cemetery, Copenhagen.

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Bust of Bishop Hans Lassen Martensen by Theobald Stein, 1888.

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Søren Kierkegaards Skrifter, at the Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre.